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| Venue | South Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 10th, 11th January 1879 (2-day match) |
| Balls per over | 4 |
| Toss | Toss not known |
| Result | South Melbourne won by an innings and 93 runs |
| Close of play day 1 | South Melbourne (1) 226/5 (Major 53*, English ?*) |
| Canterbury first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| AM Ollivier | c Treadaway b Major | 27 | |||||
| G Watson | b Cooper | 13 | |||||
| TS Baker | b Cooper | 12 | |||||
| DA Ashby | b Cooper | 1 | |||||
| *WF Neilson | c and b Cooper | 1 | |||||
| JF Hartland | b Major | 6 | |||||
| GH Lee | b Cooper | 10 | |||||
| +E Fowler | c Palmer b Cooper | 6 | |||||
| W Frith | not out | 6 | |||||
| C Frith | b Cooper | 0 | |||||
| ETA Fuller | c Major b Cooper | 6 | |||||
| Extras | 2 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 45 overs) | 90 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-35, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-90 (45 ov) | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Palmer | 10 | 4 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| Slight | 4 | 1 | 15 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cooper | 17 | 5 | 35 | 8 | - | - | |
| Major | 14 | 4 | 21 | 2 | - | - | |
| South Melbourne first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| J Slight | c Baker b Ashby | 16 | |||||
| WT Treadaway | b Ashby | 3 | |||||
| LS Woolf | c W Frith b Lee | 41 | |||||
| F Baker | b Fuller | 105 | |||||
| G Watsford | c Fowler b Fuller | 1 | |||||
| AG Major | b Ashby | 66 | |||||
| S English | not out | 41 | |||||
| C Nettle | b Lee | 16 | |||||
| WH Cooper | c Fowler b C Frith | 14 | |||||
| GE Palmer | b W Frith | 5 | |||||
| Kennedy | absent | ||||||
| Extras | 9 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 145.2 overs) | 317 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-317 (145.2 ov) | |||||||
| Canterbury bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| C Frith | 20 | 9 | 28 | 1 | - | - | |
| Ashby | 37 | 9 | 86 | 3 | - | - | |
| W Frith | 30.2 | 16 | 58 | 1 | - | - | |
| Fuller | 35 | 7 | 52 | 2 | - | - | |
| Lee | 19 | 4 | 60 | 2 | - | - | |
| Fowler | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | - | - | |
| Neilson | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | - | - | |
| Canterbury second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *WF Neilson | b Major | 8 | |||||
| DA Ashby | c Slight b Cooper | 33 | |||||
| TS Baker | run out | 30 | |||||
| AM Ollivier | c Major b Cooper | 1 | |||||
| G Watson | b Major | 4 | |||||
| W Frith | b Palmer | 8 | |||||
| GH Lee | c Baker b Major | 3 | |||||
| JF Hartland | c Treadaway b Cooper | 5 | |||||
| +E Fowler | not out | 20 | |||||
| C Frith | c Palmer b Major | 13 | |||||
| ETA Fuller | b Palmer | 2 | |||||
| Extras | 7 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 57 overs) | 134 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-?, 2-?, 3-?, 4-?, 5-?, 6-?, 7-?, 8-?, 9-?, 10-134 (57 ov) | |||||||
| South Melbourne bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Palmer | 13 | 1 | 35 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cooper | 14 | 2 | 40 | 3 | - | - | |
| Major | 19 | 8 | 30 | 4 | - | - | |
| Watsford | 4 | 2 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |
| Baker | 7 | 1 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |